Friday, December 20, 2013

Christmas tasks winding down.

The majority
of the Christmas shopping is done. Packages have been mailed and received.

We will make
tamales tomorrow. The pork is cooking in the crock pot today. It is a labor
intensive job but they do taste good when we are done.

My root
canal turned out just fine. I had 2 sessions with the endodontist for the root
canal part. He managed to save the tooth. Later I went to my regular dentist to
have the cap re-plugged where it had been drilled through for the root canal. I
really had no pain through this whole process and feel very fortunate to have
the tooth saved.

We will spend
Christmas day with our niece Chelsea and family. I will cook a turkey the day
before on the Weber kettle as usual for our Christmas dinner.

This spring
we had the large Chinese Elm tree removed from our backyard. At the time the
stump was also ground out. That process took two sessions with the grinder but
in reality, a lot of large roots remained in the ground. Craig has been chopping,
digging, and sawing more of the roots over the summer and fall as he feels like
working on it.

He screened
all the ground and removed rocks and more roots. A soil amendment was added and
a ficus tree that has sat in a pot on our patio for years is now planted.

Chinese Elm

Ficus

I am sure
this tree will also grow fairly large in the spot but by then I will be too old
to care.